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To: Joseph McDonald <joe@smartlink.net>
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From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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: Isn't an "rm -r" dangerous?  What if the user symlinks to "/" ?

No.  That would be stupid.  It just unlinks the symlink.  Hard links
would be a problem if users were on /, but they aren't.  And normal
mortal users can't create hard links to directories.

Warner